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unusual facts about peregrine



2012 Dublin Senior Football Championship

UCD, Ballyboden St Enda's, Raheny, St Oliver Plunkett's-Eoghan Ruadh, Skerries Harps, St Vincent's, St Peregrine's, Kilmacud Crokes, Trinity Gaels, Na Fianna, Ballymun Kickham's, St Patrick's Palmerstown, Parnells, Templeogue Synge Street, St Brigid's and Lucan Sarsfields all went on to qualify for the winners section of the second round of the Dublin Championship.

Aplomado Falcon

This species may be confused with the Bat Falcon (F. rufigularis) and the Orange-breasted Falcon (F. deiroleucus), which have similar white-black-rust patterns below, but those species are built more like Peregrine Falcons and have solidly blackish heads and darker rufous bellies.

Beta Aquilae

It has the traditional name Alshain from the Perso-Arabic term الشاهين aš-šāhīn "the (peregrine) falcon", perhaps by folk etymology from the Persian šāhīn tarāzū (or possibly šāhīn tara zed; see γ Aquilae), the Persian name for the asterism α, β and γ Aquilae.

Black shaheen

(Black) Shaheen Falcon (Falco peregrinus peregrinator), South Asian subspecies of Peregrine Falcon

Charleston Lake

For five years culimating in 2005, Charleston Lake was the site for re-introduction of the endangered Peregrine Falcon with The Canadian Peregrine Foundation, Ontario Power Generation and Leeds County Stewardship Council.

Mayflower

Two wives on board were pregnant – Elizabeth Hopkins gave birth to a son Oceanus while at sea and Susanna White gave birth to a son Peregrine in late November while the ship was anchored in Cape Cod Harbor.

MediEvil: Resurrection

Zarok (Voiced by Paul Darrow) : Evil sorcerer who was once part of King Peregrine's retinue and was banished for meddling with the dead.

Melanie Horsnell

Over the years at the Excelsior, Melanie performed with some remarkable artists including Paul Greene, Andy Clockwise, Bertie Blackman, peregrine, Tim Ireland and Wesley Carr, while at the same time played host to many emerging artists, most notably Laura Imbruglia.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is the debut novel by American author Ransom Riggs.

Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby

It was on Peregrine's estate at Willoughby, Lincolnshire that the parents of John Smith of Jamestown rented a farm which was the site of John's birth.

Peregrine of Auxerre

At Intaranum –present-day Entrains-sur-Nohain– Peregrine angered the governor after the saint appealed to the populace to abandon pagan idols; the inhabitants had been dedicating a new temple to Jupiter.

Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds

In 1673, his father was created Viscount Osborne in the Peerage of Scotland, but surrendered the title in favour of Peregrine when the former was created Viscount Latimer in the Peerage of England later that year.

Peregrine Semiconductor

On November 19, 2010 Peregrine filed a preliminary prospectus S-1 registration statement in preparation for a IPO.

Peregrine Systems

In 1989, John Moores, founder of BMC Software and owner of the San Diego Padres Major League Baseball team, became a member of the Peregrine Board of Directors.

Pine View School

Ransom Riggs Best known for his book: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)

Race, Evolution, and Behavior

Peregrine et al. (2003) argued, even though using "three versions of the ‘race’ variable, each representing one of the apparent definitions that Rushton used", that "Rushton’s predictions do not find much support, regardless of how ‘race’ is operationalized."

Rolls-Royce Peregrine

In August 1940 Ernest Hives, head of the Rolls-Royce aero engine division, wrote to Air Chief Marshal Wilfrid Freeman expressing his wish to stop work on the Peregrine, Vulture and another engine development project, the Rolls-Royce Exe to concentrate efforts on the Merlin and Griffon, but Freeman disagreed and stated that Peregrine production should continue.

Taita Falcon

Reasons for its scarcity in East Africa possibly include competition for food and nest sites with the larger and more dominant Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) and predation of young by the Peregrine Falcon, Lanner Falcon (Falco biarmicus) and owls.

The Antipodes

There, Peregrine is told upon waking that he has travelled to the Antipodes, the country directly opposite England on the other side of the globe.

The Ordinary Princess

Kaye has stated that "The Birches," the house Amy and Peregrine build together in the book, was based on a house that she and her sister Bets built in the Wilmcote Hill woods.

Totally Games

The company was officially incorporated in 1993 as Peregrine Software and soon thereafter renamed Totally Games by Lawrence Holland, a Cornell University graduate.

West Quantoxhead

The new church, rededicated to St. Ethel Dreda, was built by John Morton for Sir Peregrine Acland and his son-in-law, Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 1st Baron St Audries of the Acland baronets.

William Widdrington, 4th Baron Widdrington

His brother Peregrine and sister-in-law Maria, Duchess of Norfolk, were both staunch Jacobites as well.

Wings for My Flight

Houle's work takes her to Chimney Rock, Colorado, where one of the last nests of peregrine falcons is discovered.


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